
In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defiance.
A confident YA adaptation that critics widely embraced — Jennifer Lawrence anchors the franchise immediately. The Reaping sequence and the cornucopia-bloodbath give the film real weight; launched the YA-dystopia decade.